Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes

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WolffParkinsonWhite WPW syndrome

Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW) is a syndrome of pre-excitation of ventricles of the heart due to an accessory pathway known as the bundle of Kent. This accessory pathway is an abno...

Association Between Sudden Cardiac Death And A Thin Placenta At Birth

Researchers studying the origins of sudden cardiac death have found that in both men and women a thin placenta at birth was associated with sudden cardiac death. A thin placenta may result in a reduce...

Researchers find sudden cardiac death is associated with thin placenta at birth

Researchers studying the origins of sudden cardiac death have found that in both men and women a thin placenta at birth was associated with sudden cardiac death. A thin placenta may result in a reduce...

Cardio Notes: Genes May Solve Sudden Death Mystery

(MedPage Today) -- There may be a genetic component responsible for sudden unexplained deaths, researchers suggested. Arrhythmias may also play a role in sudden death during acute coronary syndromes.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Raises Sudden Cardiac Death Risk

People with moderate obstructive sleep apnea have a higher risk of sudden cardiac death, researchers reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Sudden cardiac death is when the he...

Sudden cardiac death is associated with a thin placenta at birth, researchers find

Researchers studying the origins of sudden cardiac death have found that in both men and women a thin placenta at birth was associated with sudden cardiac death. A thin placenta may result in a reduce...

New screening method for sudden death in athletes

A new study suggests that echocardiography be included as part of screenings to help identify student athletes with heart problems that could lead to sudden death.

Thin Placenta Might Be Linked to Sudden Cardiac Death Later in Life

By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Being born to a mother with a thin placenta -- the organ that nourishes the fetus -- may increase the chanc...

Placental Thickness Linked to Sudden Death Risk

Researchers think they know why thinner placentas meant greater risk of sudden death decades later in a Finnish cohort born during the 1930s to early 1940s. Heartwire

Sudden Death Associated With Myocardial Contraction Band Necrosis in Boer Goat Kids.

Parenteral selenium (Se) and vitamin E (Vit E) were administered to all newborn kids at a Boer goat farm where there was previous high neonatal mortality assumed to be due to nutritional myopathy. All...

Effect of Ascorbic Acid Concentrations, Methods of Cooling and Freezing on Boer Goat Semen Cryopreservation.

To improve the Boer goat semen quality during cryopreservation process, three experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of (i) different concentration of ascorbic acid supplementation (ii...

Polymorphisms of myostatin gene (MSTN) in four goat breeds and their effects on Boer goat growth performance.

Polymorphisms of myostatin (MSTN) gene were investigated as a candidate marker for goat growth in 687 individuals by gene sequencing and polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorph...

Polymorphisms of caprine GDF9 gene and their association with litter size in Jining Grey goats.

The exons 1, 2 and flanking region of growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) gene in five randomly selected does of Jining Grey, Boer and Liaoning Cashmere goats were amplified and analyzed. Thirteen...

Sudden cardiac death: an 11-year postmortem analysis in the region of Epirus, Greece.

The aim of the study was to determine the rate of sudden cardiac death in people aged between 1 and 80 years, and to investigate its etiology. All autopsies performed during an 11-year period were rev...